Daily Archives: July 3, 2008 »
RINF Launches Web Hosting Service
RINF has launched a new web hosting service for businesses, individuals, groups and campaigns. As dissident websites and blogs are increasingly being censored and in some cases shut down for their political views, our new service
Read More »China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo
By SCOTT SHANE | The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on
Read More »Civil liberties group criticizes new FBI authority
By LARA JAKES JORDAN | Nearly 40 years ago, the FBI was roundly criticized for investigating Americans without evidence they had broken any laws. Now, critics fear the FBI may be gearing up to
Read More »UN official says Gitmo trials unfair
AP | U.S. prosecution of terror suspects at its Guantanamo Bay detention facility fall short of international standards for fair trials, a U.N. rights official said Monday. U.N. envoy Philip Alston said the tribunals
Read More »13 Americans have been electrocuted in Iraq
By Ramesh Santanam | Contractor ordered to do barracks inspections Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, says 13 Americans have died of accidental electrocution there since September 2003 and a contractor
Read More »CACI Denies Use of Torture in Iraq
CACI International, an Arlington-based provider of interrogators to the U.S. military in Iraq, said it “rejects and denies” allegations from four Iraqi men who said they were tortured at Abu Ghraib prison. The “unfounded”
Read More »Five homes raided under Terror Act
By Katie Dawson and Danielle Dwyer | Five houses were raided by police today as part of an inquiry into a gang suspected of promoting extremist views and radicalising vulnerable people. The properties
Read More »Happy Oil Dependence Day
By Robert Scheer | As we head into the Fourth of July weekend of patriotic bluster and beer swilling — but before we are too besotted with ourselves — might we also for once
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